Canon

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Canon may refer to:

Religion

• Canon (hymnography), a type of Eastern Orthodox hymn
• Canon (priest), a Christian priest who belongs to one of certain chapters
• Canon law, the body of laws and regulations made by or adopted by ecclesiastical authority
  • Canon law (Catholic Church), the system of laws and legal principles of the Catholic Church
  • Canonization, the process of declaring a person to be a Saint
• Biblical canon, a list of books considered to be authoritative scripture by a particular religious community
• Canon of the Mass, the Eucharistic Prayer of the Roman Rite
• Chinese Buddhist canon, the body of Buddhist literature deemed canonical in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese Buddhism
• Daozang or "Taoist Canon", around 1400 texts collected circa C.E. 400
• Pāli Canon, the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language
• Penitential canons, religious rules laid down by councils or bishops concerning the penances to be done for various sins
• Tanakh, sometimes referred to as the Jewish Bible Canon
• Tibetan Buddhist canon, a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism

Literature

• Canon (basic principle), a rule or a body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
• Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as "official" in a fictional universe's fan base
• The Canon, a science book by Natalie Angier
• Canon of Dutch Literature, a list of the most important Dutch literary works
• Danish Culture Canon, a list of 108 works of cultural excellence
• Western canon, the books, music, and art that have been the most influential in shaping Western culture
  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, a 1994 book by Harold Bloom
• Canon (manga), by Chika Shiomi

Music

• Canon (music), a contrapuntal composition which employs a melody with one or more imitations
• Canon (album), by Ani DiFranco
• Pachelbel's Canon, the name commonly given to a canon by the German Baroque composer, Johann Pachelbel

Visual arts

• Aesthetic canon, a rule for the proportions of a human figure
• Film canon, the limited number of masterpieces by which all other films are judged

Companies

• Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation; produces Canon cameras
• Château Canon (disambiguation), one of a number of wineries
• UBM Canon, a media company headquartered in Los Angeles

Other uses

• Canon (game), an online browser-based strategy war game
• Canon, Georgia, a city
• Canon of Kings, a dated list of kings used by ancient astronomers as a convenient means to date astronomical phenomena
• Canon Yaoundé, a Cameroonian association football club

See also

• Canonical (disambiguation)
• Standard (disambiguation)
• Cannon (disambiguation)
• Kanon (disambiguation)
• Qanun
• Canaan (disambiguation)
• Canyon or cañon, a deep valley between cliffs
• Canon of Dutch History, official list of several key moments in Dutch history
• The Canon of Medicine, a medical text written by Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
• Canon of Eclipses, an 1887 compilation of eclipses by Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer

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